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ProfHotpants wrote:Seriously, I think this is cool artwork, and I wish it were printable. Unfortunately, I didn't get the print-ready art till this morning, so that's the reason for the late rejection.

Believe it or not, I can't really tell whether or not something is going to be printable from the 580px by 580px shirt comp image. If everyone submitted their print-ready art at the time of the initial submission, there wouldn't have to be late rejections like this.

If print-ready art were submitted earlier, the artist would also have a better chance of resubmitting art that does comply with our Design Guidelines (they're right there on the Derby submission page). I think it would really be a win-win situation.

Signed,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Art Director

Hey, Prof, if you made it a little less important to be submitted instantly at the start of the derby, then people would be more likely to submit artwork when the derby starts. Taking the fogged entries out of the hotness would help, for example. Unfortunately, there is too much advantage in getting into the hotness and fog at the very start for anyone to be willing to slow down their submission by trying to get a 5MB (or whatever size) submitted at the start of the derby.

Re: Two Roads Diverged in a Yellow Wood...

They're HAPPY TREES!

Re: binicorn

If they resubmitted on the appropriate shirt color, I would give it my vote.

Re: Mr Dodo . . . It Takes 2

This shirt fails because the dodo bird did exist and it became extinct.

But if it were offered, I would buy one.

Re: SexyGirl

It's blatantly sexist. I am offended by this shirt.

re: queen of steam

Somewhat reminiscent of 'Tank Girl'. Very nice illustration & style.

I'm counting 7 colors here: white, cream, light brown, blue, gray, black, and pink.

benjaminleebates wrote:Talk about avoiding a big can of worms!
Why doesn't everyone sub their print ready file with their submission? Can you make this mandatory and why or why not?

I personally don't submit mine with my entry because my files are usually like 15-20 MB zipped, and it takes forever. Sometimes it times out...so I just e-mail it a few days later if I see my entry is a contender for the fog or printing. If it's not though, I don't bother sending in the print ready.

Of course, for people who don't come back to the site to check whether their entry is doing well, and don't send in their print ready early, that's not a good idea. :d

Re: Second Place, GA State Fiddle Championships

Hey you are in the fog now! Awesome. I somehow have the feeling that you are in 4th place... but still it's in teh fog! I hope it prints.

Re: Dual Organ

b e a u t i f u l

simontsui wrote:It's blatantly sexist. I am offended by this shirt.

And you are uptight. Don't like it.. don't vote for it.

binkdrop wrote:I personally don't submit mine with my entry because my files are usually like 15-20 MB zipped, and it takes forever. Sometimes it times out...so I just e-mail it a few days later if I see my entry is a contender for the fog or printing. If it's not though, I don't bother sending in the print ready.

Of course, for people who don't come back to the site to check whether their entry is doing well, and don't send in their print ready early, that's not a good idea. :d

I see...
Perhaps, it should be mandated to receive the print ready file within 24 hours of submission; or automatic rejection. It just seems like this is such an odd thing to not have it sent in relative close to the sub, I mean, this image is what you make your comp from, right?

ProfHotpants wrote:Seriously, I think this is cool artwork, and I wish it were printable. Unfortunately, I didn't get the print-ready art till this morning, so that's the reason for the late rejection.

Believe it or not, I can't really tell whether or not something is going to be printable from the 580px by 580px shirt comp image. If everyone submitted their print-ready art at the time of the initial submission, there wouldn't have to be late rejections like this.

If print-ready art were submitted earlier, the artist would also have a better chance of resubmitting art that does comply with our Design Guidelines (they're right there on the Derby submission page). I think it would really be a win-win situation.

Signed,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Art Director

I can tell from a 580x580 piece that its nt printable.

tazfreeatlast wrote:Yeah. His shoes look like they are on the wrong feet.

He has trouble dressing himself... you are all so insensitive.

marmls2m wrote: *scissors*

Firstly, I don't like this design, personally. Not my thing, and going into the reasons would be incredibly redundant as they've been said a million times.

That said, you talk about him being rude to people, but look at all the things people say to him. I mean, he made a drawing and submitted it to a contest. Yes it's competitive, yes $1000 is on the line, but this got really personal really quickly. You're entitled to say whatever you like, this is the internet, but to see someone receive so many personal insults over such a long period of time, can you honestly expect them to humbly bend over and take it? To say "oh, your endless berating has shown me the error of my ways, how could I not have seen it sooner?"

I mean, come on. Criticize him for his endlessly overused rabbits, or the fact that this is a pretty generic design, but to make personal judgments is a HUGE stretch. You don't know anything about this guy except that he likes anime, and panders to the public. I don't think that makes him a great guy, maybe even a good guy, but he's not necessarily a bad one. People are just pissed off and want someone to lynch.

I'm not going to insult the artist, or cast shame on Woot for printing his stuff when it wins. I'm not going to buy this shirt if it wins, and I'm going to vote for the things I like. Tattle on the shirt, and if enough people do it it's less likely for Woot to ignore the claim of unoriginality. THAT'S the built in mechanism for removing shirts that you feel break the rules. Ultimately, rejecting is up to Woot and there is only so much you can do. But you know, it isn't your website, or your design contest, or your $1000 that's going to the winner; they have more invested in this than you do and running the contest should, by all rights, be up to them.

jmmbell1987 wrote:

I don't think playing this angle is doing ramyb any favors.

Either are a bunch of people acting like cry babies. ;) (not singling you out)

The main thing is ramyb just needs to ignore all of the Trolls, because they are a bunch of people who like to complain yet never do anything to make a situation better. I've said it a million times. Constructive criticisms are one thing, complaining just to complain is another. If people don't like ramyb so much, then why are they wasting so much time always stalking him down? If you hate his design don't vote for it. Tough concept I know. And don't give me this "we are trying to make the world better" BS. Seems to me that these people are the minority around here and others seem to like what ramyb does. Only difference is one group doesn't shove their obnoxious opinions down the others throats.

Instead of people being such big babies, start campaigning the designs you LIKE instead of trying to force your view and opinion on others that disagree with you and have the numbers in the votes to prove it. These people just come across as jerks. But that's just my opinion. I'm happy for all the designs that win, if I like them or not.

Now I'm ready for somebody to quote me to cry some more. Please do, I'm getting quite a laugh out of how ridiculous some people are on here. Some of them repeat offenders EVERY single week! haha Go ahead, be a baby to me too, that'll solve everything!

Re: Getting to Second Base

I've read the comments in this thread. The shirt designer has responded multiple times in an immature fashion. I'm sure this shirt/thread will generate a lot of strong words and heated arguments.

Personally, I find the shirt extremely offensive. Imagine if a female family member of yours, or your girlfriend, your wife or your female friend was wearing this shirt and got groped? This shirt actually encourages the wrong behavior.

mikenytola wrote:Now I'm ready for somebody to quote me to cry some more.

Why don't you cry some more. Ya baby.

KIDA26 wrote:And you are uptight. Don't like it.. don't vote for it.

It's been rejected. No vote button :P

KIDA26 wrote:Why don't you cry some more. Ya baby.

touche lol should have worded that one differently I guess.

ressamac wrote:

I even named a fancy French name: pas de deux, which means dance of two.

I'm not fluent or anything, but "pas de deux" translates to 'not two'... which still seems clever since the refalection isn't really another swan.. it's "not two".

But "Dance of two" would include the verb 'danser' (to dance) - "la danse de deux" would be a closer.

jel2301 wrote:While that's true, it won't matter with regard to rejection. The best example of this is "The Usual Suspects" from the Mystery derby in which it depicted characterizations of various frequent shirt.woot contributors. Even woot.com people who don't frequent the shirt side would never have known it was a Woot reference. But it was, so it got rejected.

I can't find the Usual Suspects submission. Would you mind linking me jel2301?

Altheahelaine wrote:Uh, just because the shirt contains all the letters 'woot' uses doesn't mean it's a woot reference. It is clearly two, mirrored.

Check out the color of the letters. WOOT is clearly written there, plain as day.

hookajoe wrote:Oh I thought it was refering to "Catch 22." I'm not familiar with the phrase "Catch Two Twos." My bad.

Ha!

ProfHotpants wrote:Seriously, I think this is cool artwork, and I wish it were printable. Unfortunately, I didn't get the print-ready art till this morning, so that's the reason for the late rejection.

Believe it or not, I can't really tell whether or not something is going to be printable from the 580px by 580px shirt comp image. If everyone submitted their print-ready art at the time of the initial submission, there wouldn't have to be late rejections like this.

If print-ready art were submitted earlier, the artist would also have a better chance of resubmitting art that does comply with our Design Guidelines (they're right there on the Derby submission page). I think it would really be a win-win situation.

Signed,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Art Director

Woot changed it to make the print-ready entry a required field recently. However, the file limit is significantly less than the 20MB claimed on the page. I don't remember right off but my uploads (from a Mac) were barfing on over 3MB I think. That makes emailing necessary for all but the simplest design. This design would NOT be uploadable.

IndependentVik wrote:Linear growth is for suckers. Voted.

Yup.

eastcobbler wrote:Mmm, 128 stuff!

Too bad there wasn't room for a full byte's worth of stuff on the shirt...

mikenytola wrote:touche lol should have worded that one differently I guess.

I just had to do it. ;)

Re: Listen to your Conscience

um...can someone explain how this has anything to do with the theme? Is it because there are 2 rabbits? Or because the title has "to" in it? Either way, those are pretty weak when I see there have been some clever submissions rejected for theme (right to arm bears). I am not saying I would vote for this, but it does have a connection to the theme (second amendment).

On another note, it is clear that this site is dominated by the same people who love pictures of cats wearing people clothes and collect odd things, because that is what these bunny shirts are, collectors items for people with bunny obsessions. I am not blaming ramy for trying to turn a buck, i am worried that woot is losing its core audience who would buy its stuff off the main woot page. Last I checked, my mom and her friends, who might love this shirt, do not buy big screen tvs or any computer accessory online.

Re: Give a Hoot for Shirt.wOOt

Hoot! GMV

Livnxtreem wrote:*laughing* I guess my southern accent got the best of me~ I didn't actually look up the pronunciations on the dictionary. I stand corrected. *sigh*

No, no, I'm sure there's lots of people who would consider it a homophone. Their, there, and they're don't sound exactly the same but are clearly considered homophones.

mcosgrove wrote: i am worried that woot is losing its core audience who would buy its stuff off the main woot page. Last I checked, my mom and her friends, who might love this shirt, do not buy big screen tvs or any computer accessory online.

I wouldn't worry to much. None of those tv's or computer accessories have any bunnies on them, unless the users puts it on them. ;)

jmmbell1987 wrote:I'm counting 7 colors here: white, cream, light brown, blue, gray, black, and pink.

Wow, jmmbell, I must say I'm embarrassed! I don't know how I missed that...and to find out just as my design appears in the New Hotness. (sigh)

I've fixed the issue and resubmitted. Hopefully I can regain my votes.

Please go here to vote for the corrected version!

VOTE FOR THE RESUB

Re: Double Trouble - Resub

Resubmitted because of a mistake I had previously not noticed. Hope I can regain my votes, and thanks for the support, everyone!

bigfoot1107 wrote:Google images for "right to arm bears" and you will see how tired this meme is...and let's be clear, the Second Amendment isn't about arming bears.

It's a joke, dumbass! A tired, unoriginal one, but nonetheless on topic. I allege that we have a less-than-intelligent moderator rejecting designs.

Kiwii wrote:I'm not fluent or anything, but "pas de deux" translates to 'not two'... which still seems clever since the refalection isn't really another swan.. it's "not two".

But "Dance of two" would include the verb 'danser' (to dance) - "la danse de deux" would be a closer.

Sorry, that's incorrect. In this usage, pas means step. This translates to step of two. You're thinking of when pas is combined with ne as a negative adverb.

Now, on this design, the colours are beautiful. Nice work.

nbouscal wrote:Decent design, but way too close to Donut Panic! in my opinion.

I second that. And I thought Donut Panic was pretty unoriginal in the first place.

Re: What's Todays Special Number?

HA! HI-larious. Love it.

This is so awesome, I can't believe it's not doing better than this...Wonderful job!

Re: Double Trouble - Resub

Resubmitted because of a mistake I had previously not noticed. Hope I can regain my votes, and thanks for the support, everyone!

Kiwii wrote:I'm not fluent or anything, but "pas de deux" translates to 'not two'... which still seems clever since the refalection isn't really another swan.. it's "not two".

But "Dance of two" would include the verb 'danser' (to dance) - "la danse de deux" would be a closer.

I'll go ahead and but in this argument. I've been in ballet for 17 years and "pas de deux" is a dance done by two people, but since you're coming at it from the language perspective, you're right, "pas" in french does mean "no" or "not" and has a negative connotation. "Pas" also means step, therefore "pas de deux" means "step of two", loosely translated to "dance of two people".


Edit: I read a little further and realized SpastasticNomadic already commented on this issue... :d Sorry for re-iterating it then.

Re: Two Heroes

The narrowing at the base of the blade would only serve to weaken it at the point that it needs to be strongest. Disregard me, I'm just a fantasy-hater.